The tenth and final round of the Montgomery Bell Academy is underway. After this round there is a forty-five minute lunch break and the Exhibition Round participants will be announced at 1:35 p.m. CST. We will try to get you those pairings when they become available ASAP.
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The eighth and final round of Saturday is underway at the Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin. The topic area is international relations and global issues.
Competition will resume tomorrow at 9:40 a.m. CST. There are two more rounds remaining in the tournament and the Exhibition Round will be after lunch.
Here are the pairings for round six of the MBA Extemp Round Robin, which begins at 3:45 p.m. CST. For the last round, students had to make a prediction from the perspective of a given news organization (e.g. Politico, Fox News, etc.). The topic area for this round is American politics and social issues.
After this round students have a small snack break called “The Refresher.” Competition resumes at 6:00 p.m. CST.
I was not able to acquire pairings for round one, but here were the second round pairings at the MBA Round Robin. The first night of competition has closed. The topic area for round 2 was Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
The third round starts at 9:00 a.m. CST. We will update pairings when they become available.
Although I am gone from the day-to-day running of the site for this season, I will still be doing live coverage from this year’s Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin, which we have done in the past at Extemp Central. The Round Robin begins Friday evening and runs through Sunday, so check back to Extemp Central to see updated pairings from what looks to be a very competitive field, with three of the five Exhibition Round participants in last year’s tournament returning for this year’s competition.
Scisco Note: Since these results were posted around midnight, the news quiz will be released TONIGHT at 8 p.m. so that this can our lead headline for today.
The competitive and close 2012 Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin concluded several hours ago and at awards it was announced that Lily Nellans of Des Moines Roosevelt High School in Iowa, who is the #2 extemper in the National Points Race, won the tournament by nine ranks over Isabelle Taft of Henry W. Grady High School in Georgia. Nellans was the second sophomore to make the Exhibition Round, but she set a new record by becoming the first sophomore to win the tournament. With Nellans and Taft taking the top two spots, this is the first time in Round Robin history that two female extempers have finished first and second. Nellans becomes the fourth extemper in the fourteen year history of the tournament to win the tournament and the Exhibition Round. She is also the first extemper from Iowa to win the Round Robin and the Exhibition Round since Brian Garfield of Dowling Catholic High School pulled off the sweep in 2000. John Cherian of Bellarmine College Prep in California rounded out the top three, while National Points Race leader Nathan Leys of Des Moines Roosevelt finished fourth. Another notable fact about this year’s tournament is that only one of the tournament’s top five competitors was a senior (Teagan Lende of Ronald Davies High School in North Dakota), setting the stage for another exciting Round Robin next year in Nashville, Tennessee.
Here are the results of this year’s tournament. The top six will receive National Points Race points and the National Points Race will be updated by Friday.
Tournament director Adam Johnson has just announced the Exhibition Round participants for this year’s MBA Extemp Round Robin. These are the top five competitors in the championship bracket of the tournament and all will be held in the National Points Race. The round will be held at 2:15 p.m.
Here are the participants in this year’s Exhibition Round (listed in speaking order):
Draw has started for the final round (that factors into overall standings) of this year’s MBA Extemp Round Robin. This is an experimental round and with rumors floating that the tournament is very close, everything likely comes down to the final round to crown this year’s 2012 Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin champion. The Exhibition Round participants are scheduled to be announced at 1:35 p.m. CST so check back then to get the next update from the tournament.
Here are the pairings for round ten:
The third and final day of the Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin is underway. The top five competitors in the championship bracket will compete in the Exhibition Round after lunch and the winner of the consolation bracket will be recognized at the awards ceremony. The topic area for this round is U.S. social issues (great way to start off the morning, right?).
Here are the pairings for round nine: